Fruits

Patti Cai

Fruits

“I put in windows with arches. I drew flying buttresses. I hung great doors. I couldn’t stop. . . . So we kept on with it. His fingers rode my fingers as my hand went over the paper.”
- Raymond Carver, Cathedral

Working intuitively, the artist uses pins, beads, threads, water, and fire on fruits to make sculptures and videos, to engage and intervene in the inner landscape of the bodies of fruits.

She locates the process in the fruit bodies as an autonomous system of material organization, while also, with her own engagement, as a medium of encounter and entanglement. The bodies contain passive and active assemblies of life, what Wolinska and Sandstrom have called a body in the Future Body of Work “informed by multiple temporalities.” she continues, “Our positions in the world and our relationships with ourselves and others are defined and transformed from within the radiant body.”

The videos of fruits can be read as a rebirth of devoted emotions, without a script.


About
Patti Cai is an artist and designer, interested in topics around emotional connection, sensory experience, and material culture. She believes that art and design are important mediums and devices of inter-communication between individuals and the world around and within.

Patti has a BFA degree major in Design and minor in English from UC Davis. She currently studies in the MFA Design and Technology program at Parsons.
Patti Cai is an artist and designer, interested in topics around emotional connection, sensory experience, and material culture. She believes that art and design are important mediums and devices of inter-communication between individuals and the world around and within.

Patti has a BFA degree major in Design and minor in English from UC Davis. She currently studies in the MFA Design and Technology program at Parsons.
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